Michele Polacsek presents latest research at North Carolina meeting

Michele Polacsek
Michele Polacsek Ph.D., M.H.S.

Michele Polacsek, Ph.D., M.P.H., professor of public health and director of UNE鈥檚 Center for Excellence in Public Health, recently presented her team鈥檚 research on recommendations to reduce food and beverage marketing to students at the 17th Annual Robert Wood Johnson Healthy Eating Research Grantee Meeting, held on March 16 in Durham, North Carolina. 

As schools continue using educational technology, Polacsek said, policy interventions are needed to limit digital food marketing in schools and on school-issued devices. Polacsek鈥檚 research highlights four areas in which state and local education authorities can intervene through their own policies.

91直播视频College of Osteopathic Medicine (91直播视频COM) student Summer Moukalled (D.O., 鈥25) is co-author on the presentation, titled 鈥淩educing Student Exposure to Digital Food and Beverage Marketing: Policy and Practice Recommendations.鈥 The presentation covers information from a recently published article in the Journal of School Health. 

Summer Moukalled (D.O., 鈥25)

Summer Moukalled (D.O., 鈥25)